The falls were named by a local resident and friend of mountaineer Agnes Vaille. Vaille died in January 1925 during a winter ascent of Longs Peak, located in the Rocky Mountain National Park.

The Cascade Creek Trail is steep in places, and I had to pause and catch my breath a couple of times. The official trail stops well short of the falls themselves, and I didn’t feel like trying to bushwack to get closer. This is a rather nasty cellphone zoom of the falls, which was the closest view I got. And yes, the sky in the mountains really is that blue. It was stunning.

Coincidentally, I met a family from Kansas City at the viewpoint, which, considering how far off the beaten track this trail is, was quite a surprise… That’s foreshadowing. Wait until we get to Canyonlands National Park in Utah 🙂